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W. E. CRESSMAN. TOY,

APPLICATION FILED JAN. i2, I917- l,227,393. Patented May 22,1917.

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Specification of Letters Patent. Patented 22, 1917.

Application filed. January 12, 1917. Serial No. 141,978.

To all whom it mayconccrn:

Be it known that I, WAY E E. CRESSMAN, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Gwynedd Valley, in the county of Montgomery and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and Improved Toy, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to a toy picture machine wherein images may be thrown upon a screen.

A prime object of'thc invention is to proride a toy picture machine provided with a source of 'light'in the rear of the screen, and a platform adapted to be turned and provided with means to receive paper dolls, cut-out pictures, etc., adapted to be brought in succession by the turning of the platform to a position between the source of light and the screen so that the shadow of the miniature object will be thrown upon the screen.

A further important object of the invention is to provide in connection with an electric circuit and an electric lamp, novel means associated with the platform so that the turning of the latter will make and break the circuit and cause illumination only when the object, the image of which is to be thrown upon the screen, is positioned between the screen and the lamp.

Other objects of the invention, as well as the structural features thereof, and the ad vantages will appear as the description pro c ceds.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification in which similar reference characters indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a toy embodying my invention; Fig. 2 is a sectional plan view, the section being taken in a plane corresponding with the line 22, Fig. 3;

Fig. 8 1s a longitudinal vertical section on the line 33, Fig. 2;

Fig. dis a view similar to Fig. 3 but illustrating another form of the invention;

Fig; 5 is a sectional plan view of the structure illustrated in Fig. 4.

In carrying out my invention in accordance with the illustrated example, a boxlike structure 10 is provided which in practice is given the general form of a miniae heat r A? the open 1 t .box a screen 12 is supported of translucent material belng set in a suitable frame 12 Between the screen 12 and the front 11 is a drop curtain 13 mounted on a shaft or roller la'adapted to be suitably turned as by a crank handle 14 A horizontal platform 15 is mounted to turn in the box 10, said platform having a central vertical post 15. At the bottom the platform has a central bearing element 16 stepped in a bearing cup or plate 16 on the paper dolls may be secured in the holders 19, and objects other than paper figures as for example, pleces of stalned glass. A source of llght is provided in the form of an electric lamp 21 mounted at the lower end of a depending strip, 22in the present instance,'said strip being secured to the cross bar'17. A c0mpart1nent 24'is adapted to contain a battery 23, and the electric circuit "includes a wire 25 from one poleof the bat- .tery to the'lamp, a wire 26 extending from the other pole of the battery to a spring contact arm 27 in the box 10 at the back, the said element'27 being in the plane of the platform 15. Said platform has contact tacks 28 or the like on-the periphery thereof at intervals and from these contact elements 28, wires 29 extend to the lower bearing element 16. A plate 30 on the bottom of the box is in metallic contact with the bearing cup or plate 16 and the wire 31 extends from said plate 30 to the lamp.

By the described arrangement the turning of the platform 15 will bring an object 20 thereonto a forward position between the lamp 21 and the screen 12, and at the same time'the circuit will be closed by engagement of the rear contact element 28, with the spring contact 27, thus closing the lamp circuit and thereby throwing the image of the front object 20 on the screen. 7 It will I thus n t at a?! iefiei e W tt f B? jects may be mounted on the platform 15 so that various images may be thrown upon the screen while'the objects producing the images will involve little or no cost.

The form illustrated in Figs. 3 and 4 is simplified in that the post 15 is omitted, to-

7 by the engagement of a finger of the oporator with the periphery.

The lamp 21 is received in a socket '16 -coaXial or substantially so, with the post 16 and mounted thereon. The battery 2, a has a compartment 24 and a conductor wire "25 extends from one battery terminal to one of the terminals at the socket 16. An approximately radial yielding contact arm 7 27 is disposed over the face of the platform 15, preferably the upper face. The other conductor 26 extends from the second terminal of the battery to a ring 25 on post The platform is provided with an annular series of tacks or like contacts 28* which are movable in succession by the turning of the platform into engagement with the arm 27 lVires 25 lead from the contacts 28 to a ring 28* disposed on the platform, said ring being in contact with the second ring 25 Thus the circuit will be closed when an object 20 is positioned be tween the screen and the lamp, as previously described. A wood or other insulating disk 15 has a central eye through which the socket l6 projects,j said disk serving to steady and properly retain the platform 15.

The character 19* indicates vertically slotted Copies of this patent may be obtained for The said platform at' five cents each, by addressing Washington, D. 0.

1. A toy of the class described includ- 7 ing a box-like structure, provided with a screen, a support mounted in said structure and turnable from the exterior thereof, said support being adapted to carry miniature objects, the images of which are to be thrown upon the screen, an electric circuit, an electric lamp insaid circuit rearward of the screen, the turning of the support s .rving to bring the objects thereon in succession to a position between the lamp and the screen, and make and break means for the electric circuit, said last-mentioned means being controlled by the turning of the sup port to close the circuit when an object on the support is in said position between the lamp and the screen. 7

2; The combination with a box-like structure provided with a screen, of a platform mounted to turn on a vertical axis,- an elcc- 'tric lamp in fixed position in the said structure approximately at the axis ofrotation of theplatform, means on the platform to receive a series of miniature objects, the images of which are to. be thrown upon the screen, the platform being optionally mo\' able to bring the images in succession to a position between the lamp and the screen, and an electric circuit in which the lamp is included, said circuit including also a contact element disposed in a plane adjacent to the plane of rotation of the platform, and an annular series of-contact elements disposed at intervals on a face of the platform and adapted successively to en a-ge said first contact element to close the lamp circuit as an object is positioned between the screen I and lamp. 7

WAYNE EVANS canssnau.

the Commissioner of Patents; 

